appleskeptic

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by appleskeptic 3y ago
There's a big difference between banning discrimination against protected classes and mandating discrimination in their favor, which is what this basically does, see the comment and discussion here https://news.ycombinator.c
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
Regarding the first half of your comment, yeah, they didn't find intentional discrimination so they focused on disparate impact. That's what I said. Perhaps you're not familiar with the concept of disparate impact. And please
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
Yes, they'd be totally in their rights to tell ISPs exactly where to spend the money, but that's not what's happening here. Here, they're telling the ISPs they have to set up an affirmative action regime or else they&#x2
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
The Commissioner Simington dissent at https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-398477A5.pdf covers this issue fairly well. The Fair Housing Act disparate impact rule has several constitutional safeguards, the o
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
Then if it turns out that the area with the most households is white and the area with fewer is black, you could be held liable.
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
> the paper you linked to mentions race as one of several factors, the leading factor apparently being income level That's not a "paper", it's the final rule that the FCC adopted. And it applies to race, ethnicity, r
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
> Requiring that a utility provide equal service to everyone within a reasonable standard of feasibility is not racial discrimination. That's right, but that's not what the rule says. The rule says that if your business decisi
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
Even if you are right, the solution is not to mandate racial discrimination. As for the subsidies, the way they work is, roughly, the government offers you a certain amount of money to build an area, and if you don't, they either give
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
The government is not allowed to mandate racial discrimination/affirmative action in the United States. There is fairly clear caselaw on this, including the recent decision prohibiting even remedial discrimination (i.e. affirmative act
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
The FCC admits they could not identify any intentional discrimination.[1] So they went further and adopted a "disparate impact" standard which means you don't even need to intend to discriminate. And unlike disparate impact i
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
This is extremely cool. What a testament to the Windows APIs too.
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
“just compensation” = market value
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
Don’t forget that the anti-TPM stuff comes from the guy, RMS, who opposes “sudo” because it serves to let a machine owner control and audit use of super-user commands, whereas just having a root password shared by multiple users gives anyon
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
You can write portable software… and then compile it for each platform to get the best performance and functionality.
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
It’s a very cool toy and fun personal project, but it’s not much more even though the author really wants it to be. Your code has to be vaguely portable anyway for this to work. So why would you pay the tradeoffs for a binary that runs in m
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
This is great and all but it’s fundamentally a toy. There are a number of tradeoffs involved here, all so that the same binary runs on multiple operating systems, which isn’t actually very useful. If your program isn’t vaguely portable to
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
“Never break userland” is more of a strong guideline than a hard rule, even if Linus has sometimes made it sound otherwise during a heated gamer moment. The fact is, kernel devs break userland code all the time, sometimes because the altern
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
Nothing prevents Thunderbird from implementing the Exchange protocols. Many have done it, including Evolution, an open source competitor to Thunderbird.
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
Not the bend. Just that it hurts if you hold it like that for too long :(
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by appleskeptic 3y ago
To be fair, some ways of holding the weight of the phone in one hand, e.g. resting the weight on your pinky finger along bottom edge, can cause hand injury/RSI. So weight isn’t a totally solved problem.